“The word in language is half someone else´s. It becomes “one´s own” only whenthe speaker populates it with his own intention, his own accent, when heappropriates the word” Mikhail Bakhtin

Coding/Decoding/Recoding provides a space to present scholarship that translates,remediates, reimagines, or revisits bodies of thought, borders, and identities. Thegraduate committee for this conference is looking for papers illustrating practices thatunsettle the conventions of how scholarship is practiced and how histories are written.This includes matters of semiotics, hermeneutics, translation, representation,signification, subversion and transgression. This topic is a stimulus to highlight thenecessity of renegotiating hierarchical structures, the urgency of rereading andreframing canonical texts, and the possibility of creating strategies for transdisciplinarycommunication and collaboration. We seek scholarship that revises its own disciplinarystandards or that seeks to produce new ones, as well as scholarship that treats spaces,bodies, thoughts, and histories as texts that can be coded, decoded or recoded anew inorder to further our understandings of their significance (both historical andcontemporary).If you are interested, we encourage submissions representative of a wide variety oftopics in the Arts and Humanities and affiliated disciplines including but not limited to:

Negotiating methodological differences between disciplines or paradigmsProblems of meaning making in translation studiesHermeneutic approaches to textsManipulation of texts linguistic, visual, or otherwiseContemporary and/or decolonial constructions of genderNew approaches to historiographyArticulating affect and non-normative experienceCode-switching

We invite those interested in delivering a 20-minute presentation to submit abstracts ofno more than 300 words to coding.decoding.recoding@gmail.com by January 14, 2019. Please include your name, abstract keywords, institutional affiliation, technicalrequirements, and a 50-word bio in your email. Abstracts and presentations in English,Spanish, and French are welcome.